tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
You can tell they are self-taught. 😀
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
… Learning from scratch, and with limited human intervention, the digital characters learned how to kick, jump, and flip their way to success. What’s more, they even learned how to interact with objects in their environment, such as barriers placed in their way or objects hurled directly at them.
Gizmodo – After Millions of Trials, These Simulated Humans Learned to Do Perfect Backflips and Cartwheels
In a recent Q&A session Gretchen Kerr, vice-dean of academic affairs at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education talks about her role as a volunteer athlete welfare officer with Gymnastics Canada and her views regarding emotional abuse.
As a psychologist Kerr’s field of expertise is the emotional abuse of athletes which she is using to advocate policy change and influence coach education. …
There is a fine line between pushing an athlete to be their best and maltreatment. That line is crossed when the athlete performs through fear and intimidation rather than their desire to achieve.
In their paper Stirling and Kerr (2008) report that emotional abuse takes the form of physical behaviours, verbal behaviours and the denial of attention and support – bullying, berating, humiliating, degrading and intimidating/threatening are all forms of emotional abuse. …
read more on Warriors In Leotards
Emotional abuse has been little documented compared against sexual abuse.
Coverage for paid PRO members only.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
related – Inside Gymnastics – PREVIEW: 2018 JESOLO TROPHY
BOOT CAMPS IN 2018
May 25-27- FULL Phoenix, AZ Arizona Sunrays (full)
June 8-10 – Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy
June 15-17 – Colorado Springs, CO Aerials Gymnastics
Cost $800.
Small and portable. $550 from Amazon in the USA.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
There’s a bit of a storm over on The Twitter.
In the latest GymCastic audiocast Spencer and Jessica were discussing whether or not it’s a good idea to coach in a skirt.
Potential #WardrobeMalfunction.
Consensus is that it’s better not to wear a skirt while coaching. Just in case. Jury is out on whether or not skirts are stupid, in general. 😀
Don’t get them started on high heels while coaching.
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
This message is slowly getting through to mainstream sports media.
But I did see a few during Commonwealth Games coverage. ☹️
Heart this tweet.
Commonwealth Games.
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 